Thank you all for your comments. I replied to some of them below. I gave a few ideas in my original post but I feel whatever it takes to get the Unreal Engine up and running needs to happen as soon as possible. Since it is a popular engine, I feel that it would bring in more developers and, as a result, speed up development and attract more players to the game.

Quote from: Eatuck on January 13, 2018, 11:02:49 pm

I would like to recommend to use all donation funds received to hire temporary developers to complete the unreal engine transition as well as add additional features to the game (if additional funds are available).

Won't happen.

I feel this type of comment is not productive. If there are donations, they should be used to improve the game. I may be wrong, but I heard there are funds to hire developers if need be. 

That certainly won't increase development speed. All projects should always have a project manager/product owner, and for a reason. What i understand by "turning the game over to a community", everything would be voted on. That would only increase the bureaucracy and slow the speed in the management side. Games and other software projects aren't ran like goverments; projects are born from a vision of group of persons, who should work as the product owners/project managers. If you ment something else by your statement, well then i don't know >.<

Overall, I feel whatever will start getting things done would be beneficial. If it requires someone else to take it on or a group, I am all for it.


Any comment regarding roleplay or getting involved in game:

Roleplay only works when there are players in the game to roleplay with. 3-5 players on the server (3 total in game while I write this, including me) does not make a new roleplayer want to stay. If I tried this game for the first time today, I would delete my account probably within the first 10 minutes. In the short time I have in game these days, I usually just chat with guild mates and work on a skill. If I had additional free time, I would try to help out new players but unfortunately I do not have the time.

Congratulations Menille!! You deserve the recognition for your service to the guild and the community as whole. I can't think of anyone more dedicated to the game. I would have left a long time ago if it wasn't for Menille and the Wayward Kingdom. Menille's friendly, helpful, positive, and welcoming attitude introduced me to a community of friends that made me enjoy the game again. You are the true spirit of the Wayward Kingdom. I am proud to call you my friend. Capo di Tutti...I salute you!

So then only the strong characters are entitled to the chests? What about the quick and stealthy thief who relies more on agility and sneakiness than on physical strength?

To make it so stealthy characters could avoid having to kill the beast protecting the chest, I think it would require lock picking (or pickpocket to get the key) and stealth skills which are not implemented yet. Something to think about. Thanks for the bringing that up Rigwyn.

Eonwind wrote:

MA crafting process is too difficult and too time expensive other than economically unbalanced, I would really like to streamline the crafting process (without remaking it whole which would be a huge waste of time) otherwise the HA crafting which will be ontop MA will be insanely hard to do, and this is something I want to avoid at all costs!

I agree completely. MA takes way too long to make (and mouse clicks) and requires a ton of resources. With the 19 stocks to make a 6 piece MA set (25 with 6-1 patterns), I could make 6 long swords and 1 sabre. The resources for MA just don't seem right to me.

I don't think people should do crafting in their guild house.  Seems... antisocial.

I just want some tools so I can take over an abandoned building in Oja or set up a stall in the Hydlaa market and set up a little shop.  I'd use the tools to work and train if there aren't any customers around.

I agree it is anti-social. Although, sometimes I just want to concentrate on crafting. I like your idea to take over an empty shop.

Lumi wrote:

What could it give you exactly to be a super maxed personn in no time ?

I am not saying to make it so someone can max a skill in a day. From your post, it sounds like you think my wish is to make players max immediately when they enter the world. This is far from the truth. What I am saying is the game is currently a huge grinding session and, do to this, players can't be retained. I believe if the mindset was to make the game fun to level instead of grind to level then players will stay. There is many solutions to this but the main one, in my opinion, is to make levelling significantly easier.

Lumi wrote:

Do we want a complet community of maxed people running around PS ? Or do we prefer to keep a relative hard to get skills to keep the interaction between player, necessary? I am not so sure of the answer honestly. We aint that much already, are we going to finish all alone in our corner, auto-sufficient ? ;-o

It shouldn't matter if there is a lot of max players in the community. I believe the community would benefit from players that don't spend all their time grinding skills up so they can kill the next beast. They would interact more frequently with other players.

Tman wrote,

You know all of these things can be done without being maxed out, right?

Yes. You could role play but some players aren't into that, including myself. In my current state as a HA user, I would have to spend a ton of potions to kill the monsters that give me adequate pp. Even ulbers hit me pretty hard with max in HA while a crafted MA user can get hit and have barely a sliver taken off their health.  Also a max in a weapon will give me the most survivability because I can kill the beast faster than it kills me.   

Tman wrote,

The thing is, you need to make finished products.  You can't pound the same pieces of metal into sword handles and expect to be able to pay the trainer.  You need to make finished swords.  Same with cooking/herbal/alchemy.  You need to make and sell the finished product.  Intermediates won't make you anything substantial.

I agree, but doing so would require a ton of material to make all these finished products you are talking about with blacksmith skills. So basically this means buying ore/hides (need tria, so grind), or mining/hunting (grinding) then doing crafting. In the end it would take even more time to level because you have to constantly seek out materials. To give you an idea of the amount, a full suit (6 pieces) of chain mail armor requires 19 stocks (25 with 6-1 patterns) to complete. Armor making is one of the skills where you have to complete something because it is a one way trip. Blades and shields are less resource needy because of recycling. Overall both ways take forever to gain one level but it is quicker to recycle.

I know a player with max in all armor and most weapon skills (think all but one) as well as max in a way (and really high in the rest). They still play the game and still enjoy it as well. I just want to get my player to the point where I can be self sufficient. To me this means maxing a weapon, armor, and a way. I also don't think that asking to not spend years in the game doing so is not a small request.   

Guys... There's a reason we don't use gold in tools. 

It was just an example. Yes I do realize that gold is a soft metal. Replace it with blue-steel then.